Real estate lender George Morrill has joined The Grossman Cos. Inc. and is focusing on growing the real estate loan portfolio of First Boston Capital Partners, which provides first and second mortgage financing as well as joint-venture equity to investors and developers in New England.

FBCP is the private lending affiliate of The Grossman Cos. Inc., the Quincy-based commercial real estate investment, brokerage, development and management firm.  FBCP’s private lending business has doubled origination volume in each of the last three years, having made approximately $60 million in loan commitments in that time.

Morrill’s primary responsibilities are to originate new lending opportunities and asset management of the company’s private loan portfolio. 

Morrill, who earned his bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and his MBA at the Babson College – Franklin W. Olin Graduate School of Business, has served as asset manager at Tremont Realty Capital; director of lending at Wellesley Capital Corp.; and  loan acquisitions officer at Capital Crossing Bank, among other financial industry positions.  He has over 12 years of experience in the commercial real estate finance business, six of which were spent as a private lender.